Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come). Nixon may hope to achieve such martyrdom by resigning after the House vote, sparing the country and himself a Senate trial. But some Congressmen argue that if a condition of his leaving office is that he publicly acknowledge -and not contest-the case against him, Nixon will disappear from the scene as thoroughly as has Spiro Agnew...
...that he himself had committed the murders. He would hide behind a narrow turning in a Nicosia side street, wait for his victim to pass, and then blow the man's head off or shatter his back. He would toss his gun to a small boy, who would disappear into the bowels of the earth. Sampson would then run away and reappear several minutes later clutching his reporter's notebook." Although much of his terrorism was politically motivated, he acquired a reputation for sadistically enjoying the pain he inflicted...
Think of it: through the alchemy of imagination, the oceans disappear. Suddenly, the world would gain some 140 million sq. mi. of land, including mountains higher than Everest, volcanoes more powerful than Etna, chasms deeper than the Grand Canyon. By far the most pleasant scenery to man's eye-assuming anyone could survive in a world without water-would be the delicately terraced hills and snug valleys on the gently sloping continental shelves. The rest of the ocean floor would be mostly a vast wasteland of muddy ooze, as bleak in its way as the Sahara...
...Radcliffe, the Office of Women's Education could be the only part of Radcliffe College that would survive merger. No one, however, has a timetable either for merger or for the OWE's demise. "One of the ironies is that as Radcliffe becomes more vigorous, forcing it to disappear is more of a problem," Arthurs said last week...
Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans of Radcliffe and Harvard, took the problem in stride, optimistically predicting that over-crowding would disappear as students moved off campus, switched to a less crowded house, or decided to take the semester...